I don't know too much about either of these teams. Just basing my views on Madden 2010 I can say that the Bengals don't particularly impress me.
Just taking a guess here, I'll go with the Bengals for no reason other than home field advantage.
Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys
Gonna base my views on this one on nothing more than personal feelings. While I would like to see Fuzzy enjoy a nice long run by the Eagles I have to admit they're a team I just don't like.
I can never forget 4'th & 26. I never liked McNabb. And I HATE that they took on Vick.
Meanwhile my feelings on the Cowboys is that they were the major roadblock for the Packers for years in the playoffs before we finally broke past em' to make it to the Super Bowl in 1996. I also don't like their owner and for too many years they seemed to be happy to have thugs playing on their team.
So my HOPE is that the Eagles win so eventually the Packers can get revenge and knock em' out deep in the playoffs.
But my prediction is that the Boys will beat em'.
Baltimore Ravens at New England
The Pack played Baltimore this year and I didn't see what was so special about the Ravens. New England has slipped a lot in two years but still are an elite team.
I think this will be New England all the way.
Green Bay Packers at Arizona Cardinals
As the week goes on three fairly important parts of the Cardinal team are still banged up and at least two of them appear to quite possibly be unlikely to play Sunday.
Besides that I think the Packers have just have this clubs number. I know AZ will tell you they haven't played them in a situation where they were "trying to win" this year, but they've been embarassed by the Pack twice (once in pre season and once to end the season) and I just don't think they're going to flip the switch and suddenly beat us.
They're a good club, but I say Pack wins.
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So there's my predictions. Make yours and let's see who does best throughout the playoffs!
Dallas vs Philadelphia - Hate Dallas win a football passion. The Eagles were absolutely pathetic last week. They had the chance to play at home and have an extra week off. Sometime they throw one of those clunker games out there. They didn't look that good the first time the teams met this year. They lost then too. This mess can be traced to two events - the Eagles losing to Oakland and Dallas beating New Orleans. Stupid Eagles. All they had to do was beat Oakland. As much as I want then to win, I fear the will not.
Green Bay vs Arizona - I don't get to see too much of these teams. I am not sure what the Cardinals actually did last week (played vs rested guys). I know the Packers smoked them and did it early. I look to the Packers to take the win.
Baltimore vs New England - I have seen the Ravens some this year but not so much of the Patriots. I am not sure what Baltimore really has as they can look good or just okay. If Brady gets to throwing the ball, the Ravens could be in trouble. But now the Patroits are without one of their top recievers so let's see who can pick up the slack. I am going to call the win for the Partriots.
NY Jets vs Cincinnati - I don't care much for either team. I do get to see some of the Jets games. I watched some of the Sunday night game. They Jets were playing hard to get into the playoffs. They did look like the stronger team. But I don't know which Bengals team will show up when they play this week. I think this game can go either way. The Jets may have the momentum, but the Bengals are at home. I don't know that I have a call here, but I may be leaning a little towards the Jets.
Overall, there are three rematches of last Sunday's games. Let's see which teams learned something and can turn it around.
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